RIPPER DEAL: Peter & Marianne Wallis (right), Glenlea Park, Pinnaroo, with the $51,000 ram that set a new stud record, and became the highest priced Merino sold in SA for many years. They are pictured with Landmark stud stock auctioneer Gordon Wood, Classings Limited's Bill Walker, underbidder and semen share holder Will Lynch, Boorana, Woorndoo, and buyer Les Hamence, Pimbena stud, Wirrulla.

$51,000 Sale Topper

Pimbena brings home top-price ram from 2013 Classings Classic

This year's 130-kilogram topper had shown his growth potential early, with a weaning
weight of 69 kilograms – 20kg more than the average of Glenlea Park's 2012-drops.
The ET-bred April 2012-drop was sired by Glenlea Park 004 – a ram sold in 2010 at the Classings sale to the Boorana, Pyramid Poll and Brookdale studs and out of an outstanding woolled ewe. The imposing sire had tremendous wool cut, with 6.7kg of
wool from less than six month's growth.

Buyer Mr Hamence was impressed by the phenotype and genotype of the ram whose Australian Sheep Breeding Values included 14.1 yearling clean fleece weight and 7.5
yearling weight.

The sale topper's other wool measurements included a standard deviation of 2.8, 15 per cent coefficient of variation and 99.6pc comfort factor. "He has excellent wool – nice, bright wool with the conformation you want and great figures," Mr Hamence said. "We have not been mulesing for six years so we wanted bare breech, and both
his sire and grand sire have shown these attributes."

Semen interests have been sold to 12 studs from three states including South Australian studs Keyneton Station, Keyneton; Nantoura, Wharminda; O'Brien Enterprises, Wudinna; SWM, Tintinara; Southrose, Tintinara; Karawatha Park, Buckleboo; and Ramsgate, Tintinara.
The others are Boorana stud, Vic; WA studs Barooga, Williams; Penrose, Cascade; and Westwood, Cascade.

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